I'm going to try to respond to as many of the comments as I can: IBM is supporting Linux for 1 main reason - their customers are asking for it. They've never hidden that reason, and are quite open about it. Unlike most companies, by supporting it, they mean also contributing developers to it. Believe it or not, there are some _very_ experienced developers in IBM working exlusively on contributing source to Linux, Apache and maybe some other OS projects. This is costing IBM a lot of money, so it's not to be taken lightly. It's also a long term investment, because they don't make very much on Linix based projects right now.
"no one can use it on the Desktop until Lotus comes up with "Notes for Linux""
I don't know why Notes doesn't have a Linux client. I use it, and I can honestly say that I felt better before I used it. My personal opinion is that I hope that someone else comes out with a Notes client for Linux, because the Notes client I use is pretty awful.
"To be honest, nothing at IBM involves Linux. Everything IBM has done with Linux has been essentially an external posturing and hype"
Just because nothing you do has anything to do with Linux, doesn't mean that nothing _IBM_ does has anything to do with Linux. Come on - it's a huge organization. Most of the Linux work is being done in a grassroots way, and once it becomes big enough it becomes officially endorsed by the upper level Linux initiative. I'm hoping to soon be involved in a movement of my project to Linux. It's starting off unofficially (I'll be working on it in my spare time) but hopefully, it'll be part of everything else I do, and eventually officially endorsed. Why am I doing it? because it'll be a challenge, and it'll be fun to see what I'm working on run on Linux. My point is, if you don't see anything done with Linux, do something about it yourself. Even if you haven't been asked to do so.
"until I see IBM using Linux, I won't believe it"
Well, I've seen IBM using Linux, and I've only been here for a few months so I believe. Look around a bit more, you'll find it soon enough.
"don't have to cope with screwed-up proprietary IBM network protocols in the data center"
I'm not sure about this - wasn't there a time when that protocol was better than what else was out there? Didn't it make sense then?
"But what are they going to do to develop linux? Are they going to contribute to the community, or are they just going to make a quick buck on everyone else's work without having to worry about NT licencing fee"
IBM's Linux site It might not say anything about the contributing developers, but at a conference CASCON, the person in charge of Linux projects at IBM talked about contributing back to the community at length.
"Who knows, they might even Open Source some of the marginal Operating Systems, like OS/2"
Just a note - OS/2 is not that marginal. Actually, it's doing well from what I hear. I don't know much more, but I doubt that it'll be open-sourced.. Disclaimer: I'm a relatively new employee for IBM, and I don't claim to speak for them at all. That's not what I'm paid for, and I might have things wrong, so it's a good thing I'm not getting paid for that.
This is awesome! If the prices go up when the temperature goes up, I assume they'll go down in relation to the temperature as well. Since I live in Canada, all I have to do is buy a whole lot of them this winter, and then just drive south...
Does this mean that if it crashes, will my new Palm will finally display the Blue Screen Of Death? (BTW, I have a IIIx, and it's only crashed when I was hacking around on a small program, which was on a buggy API at the time)
Did anyone take a look at what Pixelon has done? It's pretty impressive to me anyhow - you can take a look at it here and bypass the shockwave intro (which is quite annoying) http://209.79.16.5/ricochet/teasergallery.htm
With the increase in bandwidth, that complaint about it taking 3 minutes on cable is going away soon. (Note: I have ADSL and it took me 20 seconds to d/l it - in Canada). Keeping that in mind, what else out there provides high quality video? I just watched a video on broadcast.com, and it was anything but smooth. Given, it isn't providing real-time streaming video yet, but the promise to do so is there : isn't that what the live broadcast is all about?
According to them, it's supposed to be around 1MB per 10ns.
"limited by the computer it is connected to, reading a full 1 million bytes of information could take as little as 10 nanoseconds"
Meaning you'd get 100,000,000 MB per second (100 GB)
Imagine that.
Of course, it also says that it _could_ take as little as - no mention of actually possible numbers if any. After all, we have to remember that it's limited by the speed of the computer.
I installed Spotless on my PalmIIIx a few minutes ago, and when I clicked on the Preferences/About Spotless VM, it says "A Kauai/kJava Implementation May 27, 1999"
It has about 58 classes (I'm too lazy to get a listing) and a quite a few sample Java apps to show it can be done.
It's slow, and I get the feeling that I should just be amazed that it even works, but I'm too awed to complain.
It's quite nice, and now I'm going to stay up all night checking out the developers kit you can download with it. from: http://www.sunlabs.com/research/spotless/index.h tml
My guess is that the KJava implementation is probably sped up a bit and has a better browsing interface (from what cuirana says).
I would think that being known as a Coder would be the most obvious choice. Heck, we even founded a club based on the name at our university ( http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ccc ).
Calling yourself a : Programmer is a too uptight and restricting, Software Engineer now leaves you open to legal action, Hacker - not everyone gets it, cracker - just plain wrong.
Unless you venture into the 2-word descriptions which in my opinion don't cut it. Who wants to be known as a computer scientist?
I call myself a software developer, because it looks much better on a resume than "coder" or "hacker" which mean pretty much the same to me with the exception that hackers still have have that negative connotation of being 'disorganized non-structured people inappropiate for professional application development'.
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This is awesome!
If the prices go up when the temperature goes up, I assume they'll go down in relation to the temperature as well.
Since I live in Canada, all I have to do is buy a whole lot of them this winter, and then just drive south...
Now, where's that jar of quarters...
Does this mean that if it crashes, will my new Palm will finally display the Blue Screen Of Death?
(BTW, I have a IIIx, and it's only crashed when I was hacking around on a small program, which was on a buggy API at the time)
Did anyone take a look at what Pixelon has done?
It's pretty impressive to me anyhow -
you can take a look at it here and bypass the shockwave intro (which is quite annoying)
http://209.79.16.5/ricochet/teasergallery.htm
With the increase in bandwidth, that complaint about it taking 3 minutes on cable is going away soon. (Note: I have ADSL and it took me 20 seconds to d/l it - in Canada).
Keeping that in mind, what else out there provides high quality video? I just watched a video on broadcast.com, and it was anything but smooth.
Given, it isn't providing real-time streaming video yet, but the promise to do so is there : isn't that what the live broadcast is all about?
It's really something worth looking at.
__ who needs a tv anymore!
According to them, it's supposed to be around
1MB per 10ns.
"limited by the computer it is connected to, reading a full 1 million bytes of information could take as little as 10 nanoseconds"
Meaning you'd get 100,000,000 MB per second
(100 GB)
Imagine that.
Of course, it also says that it _could_ take as little as - no mention of actually possible numbers if any. After all, we have to remember that it's limited by the speed of the computer.
I installed Spotless on my PalmIIIx a few minutes ago, and when I clicked on the Preferences/About Spotless VM, it says
h tml
"A Kauai/kJava Implementation May 27, 1999"
It has about 58 classes (I'm too lazy to get a listing) and a quite a few sample Java apps to show it can be done.
It's slow, and I get the feeling that I should just be amazed that it even works, but I'm too awed to complain.
It's quite nice, and now I'm going to stay up all night checking out the developers kit you can download with it. from:
http://www.sunlabs.com/research/spotless/index.
My guess is that the KJava implementation is probably sped up a bit and has a better browsing interface (from what cuirana says).
I couldn't find it anywhere! I got Spotless, but I couldn't find KJava for the Palm. Anyone know where I can get it?
I just gotta try it out!
I would think that being known as a Coder would be the most obvious choice.
Heck, we even founded a club based on the name at our university ( http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ccc ).
Calling yourself a :
Programmer is a too uptight and restricting,
Software Engineer now leaves you open to legal action,
Hacker - not everyone gets it,
cracker - just plain wrong.
Unless you venture into the 2-word descriptions which in my opinion don't cut it.
Who wants to be known as a computer scientist?
I call myself a software developer, because it looks much better on a resume than "coder" or "hacker" which mean pretty much the same to me with the exception that hackers still have have that negative connotation of being 'disorganized non-structured people inappropiate for professional application development'.